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Towards the end of her life, my mum had Altzheimerâ€™s and she spent the last 10 months living in a special home for individuals with dementias, where she was very well looked after.

The reason for my comment is that I experienced something similar there: each week, they did a mini-karaoke session, where they put on music and had a microphone for the people to sing into. There were quite a few people who had lost most of their speech abilities, and one lady in particular was not able to do much in the way of verbal communication, but retained the words to many hundreds of songs, which she could sing perfectly and very beautifully.

This is slightly different from the situation you are talking about, but similar â€“ the part of the brain holding memory to words and tunes must be a different area than for that which creates verbal communication. It really is amazing how the brain works and Iâ€™m sure we have a long long way to go to really understand it.